EOSC 114 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide -
19 Nov 2018
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Magnitude prefixes: the international system of units (si) specifies the following prefixes to represent various multiples or magnitudes: The energy must first be concentrated, but this takes time: examples where the build-up time is greater than the release, some disasters have less build up time and more release time, including: Trench) is 11km: an air molecule is 10-9m. Mass: mass is what things are made of (matter, the si standard unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). A solid iron cannon ball will sink when immersed in a fluid. The end result is a layering of materials. Intensity using logarithmic scales: to avoid graphing difficulty, we can use a logarithmic graph, where the ordinate (the vertical axis of the graph) steps by powers of 10. The abscissa (horizontal axis) is linear, but the ordinate steps by orders of magnitude. A disaster of intensity 6 is how much stronger than a disaster of intensity 4: 2, 10, 100, 104.
